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What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?
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As originally conceived, the Turing Test involves a human who is *making an effort to determine* whether their interlocutor is human or not.
It takes very little effort to prompt an LLM to demonstrate its non-human-ness! Just say something that would make a human reply “WTF are you on, bro?”
It takes very little effort to prompt an LLM to demonstrate its non-human-ness! Just say something that would make a human reply “WTF are you on, bro?”
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As originally conceived, the Turing Test involves a human who is *making an effort to determine* whether their interlocutor is human or not.
It takes very little effort to prompt an LLM to demonstrate its non-human-ness! Just say something that would make a human reply “WTF are you on, bro?”
It takes very little effort to prompt an LLM to demonstrate its non-human-ness! Just say something that would make a human reply “WTF are you on, bro?”
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These pieces really do make it clear that it's not so much that men like this view chatbots as human women. It's that they don't actually view women as humans. We're flattery machines that are defective if we don't sufficiently flatter them.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
These pieces really do make it clear that it's not so much that men like this view chatbots as human women. It's that they don't actually view women as humans. We're flattery machines that are defective if we don't sufficiently flatter them.
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it's a great day to call your representatives and remind them that U.S. citizens are being detained, assaulted, and denied basic rights at the hands of ICE. Americans like Wilmer Chavarria, Andrea Velez, George Retes, Javier Ramirez, and Dayanne Figueroa have been brutalized by their country--ours.
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
it's a great day to call your representatives and remind them that U.S. citizens are being detained, assaulted, and denied basic rights at the hands of ICE. Americans like Wilmer Chavarria, Andrea Velez, George Retes, Javier Ramirez, and Dayanne Figueroa have been brutalized by their country--ours.
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Also worth noting: I see journalists I respect saying that text based social media is a dead end & you gotta be on tiktok making videos.
But there's a different between what journalists/influencers want and what ORGANIZERS want.
If you're an organizer, you can organize people here. That's a fact.
But there's a different between what journalists/influencers want and what ORGANIZERS want.
If you're an organizer, you can organize people here. That's a fact.
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Also worth noting: I see journalists I respect saying that text based social media is a dead end & you gotta be on tiktok making videos.
But there's a different between what journalists/influencers want and what ORGANIZERS want.
If you're an organizer, you can organize people here. That's a fact.
But there's a different between what journalists/influencers want and what ORGANIZERS want.
If you're an organizer, you can organize people here. That's a fact.
Wow did someone betray the revolution?
#OtD 17 Dec 1933 sexual contact between men was re-criminalised in the USSR, after it had been decriminalised in 1922 in the wake of the 1917 revolution. After it was introduced, gay and bisexual men began to flood into the gulags stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8868...
December 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Wow did someone betray the revolution?
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Five more phrases of exasperation…
5. You’re making artichoke grow on my head (Moroccan Arabic)
4. You’re putting a pea up my nose (Finnish)
3. You’re knocking me a tea kettle (Yiddish)
2. You’re running on my bean (French)
1. You’re making smoke belch from the seven orifices of my head (Mandarin)
5. You’re making artichoke grow on my head (Moroccan Arabic)
4. You’re putting a pea up my nose (Finnish)
3. You’re knocking me a tea kettle (Yiddish)
2. You’re running on my bean (French)
1. You’re making smoke belch from the seven orifices of my head (Mandarin)
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Your post is being read by...The Nozzle
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Your post is being read by...The Nozzle
A nice, bracing piece of work by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A nice, bracing piece of work by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
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A German version of “the early bird catches the worm” translates to “the morning hour has gold in its mouth.” A Czech version is “he who does not laze around, gets the greens.” But my favourite is the French “the first cow to the meadow licks up all the dew” (imo, a vache improvement on the others).
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A German version of “the early bird catches the worm” translates to “the morning hour has gold in its mouth.” A Czech version is “he who does not laze around, gets the greens.” But my favourite is the French “the first cow to the meadow licks up all the dew” (imo, a vache improvement on the others).
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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"The English we were taught was not the fluid, evolving language of modern-day London/California, filled with slang & convenient abbreviations. It was the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator (...)The machine accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire."
I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"The English we were taught was not the fluid, evolving language of modern-day London/California, filled with slang & convenient abbreviations. It was the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator (...)The machine accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire."
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Sir Kir Stirmer has forensically bet the entire UK economy on AI and now the US are going to rug-pull him unless we agree to eat chlorinated chicken
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Sir Kir Stirmer has forensically bet the entire UK economy on AI and now the US are going to rug-pull him unless we agree to eat chlorinated chicken
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hey I dunno who needs to hear this but: if your structural engineer says something is necessary and your builder says it isn’t necessary
listen to the engineer
listen to the engineer
December 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
hey I dunno who needs to hear this but: if your structural engineer says something is necessary and your builder says it isn’t necessary
listen to the engineer
listen to the engineer
DJ Javerbaum is starting to have doubts. "The most indisputable of facts — even the notion of factuality itself — repels itself off his blighted-tangelo mug like tequila off Gore-Tex, creating a cultural atmosphere whose oxygen is lies and nitrogen is resignation,
December 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
DJ Javerbaum is starting to have doubts. "The most indisputable of facts — even the notion of factuality itself — repels itself off his blighted-tangelo mug like tequila off Gore-Tex, creating a cultural atmosphere whose oxygen is lies and nitrogen is resignation,
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Happy 58th Birthday to Jamie Foxx, born Eric Marlon Bishop
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Happy 58th Birthday to Jamie Foxx, born Eric Marlon Bishop
Yes, all art is already "interactive", at least theoretically. These are the same ignoramouses selling things called "SMART Intelligence" (you know, intelligence that is Smart®); also "bringing history To Life." and "unleashing creativity".
It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
December 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yes, all art is already "interactive", at least theoretically. These are the same ignoramouses selling things called "SMART Intelligence" (you know, intelligence that is Smart®); also "bringing history To Life." and "unleashing creativity".
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DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
A new kind of digital camouflage emerges from DARPA AI research | Biometric Update
The technique, called DiffProtect, quietly rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
www.biometricupdate.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Daily bunny no.3166 confronts his two greatest fears
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Daily bunny no.3166 confronts his two greatest fears
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This was yesterday, and it really is worth noting that this is what the political class and most of the press has been falling over itself to protect: the type of shit they would be demanding the army crack down on, from any other set of fans.
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This was yesterday, and it really is worth noting that this is what the political class and most of the press has been falling over itself to protect: the type of shit they would be demanding the army crack down on, from any other set of fans.
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James Vincent>Where Do You Find These Memes?
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
James Vincent>Where Do You Find These Memes?
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Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
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Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...